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England Highlights Latest 

Highlights: The Weyborne Oriana Golden Spur Brut 2022 Sussex, England

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025 jamiegoode 492 Views Sparkling wine

Website: https://www.weyborne.com/ The Weyborne Oriana Golden Spur Brut 2022 Sussex, England12% alcohol. This is an early release from 2022, and

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Features Latest Slovenia 

Slovenia: Bjana is an exciting sparkling wine project in Brda

December 5, 2025December 5, 2025 jamiegoode 655 Views Sparkling wine

Website: https://bjana.si/ Based in Brda, Slovenia, on the border with Italy, Bjana is a very exciting sparkling wine project. It’s

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England Features Latest 

Leading English sparkling wine producer Nyetimber are almost through with their vintage, and it’s one of the earliest and best ever

October 10, 2025 jamiegoode 1614 Views Sparkling wine

Back in 1988, American couple Stuart and Sandy Moss changed the face of English wine forever. Back at this time

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England Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Smith & Evans Higher Plot Pinot Chardonnay Late Disgorged 2010 England

July 15, 2025 jamiegoode 1068 Views Sparkling wine

This is really interesting; It’s a late disgorgement of an English sparkling wine that spent 13 years on its lees.

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England Highlights Latest Videos 

Highlight: the stunning first edition of Perpetual from English fizz star Langham

July 14, 2025July 14, 2025 jamiegoode 3276 Views Sparkling wine

Langham Perpetual Chardonnay First Edition NV Dorset, England12% alcohol. The best wines from 2017, 2018 and 2019 blended together, and

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Features Latest Slovenia 

Slovenia: Domaine Slapšak with François Botton, who traded Champagne dreams for Dolejnska

July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1383 Views Sparkling wine

Website: https://www.domaine-slapsak.com/en/ François Botton is French, and hails from the Champagne region. But he didn’t grow up in a Champagne

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England Features 

Taittinger’s foray into England, Domaine Evremond, releases its first wine

January 28, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3755 Views Sparkling wine

Back in 2015 I attended a press conference at Westminster Abbey announcing a launch of a new English sparkling wine

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Published today: my UK Sparkling Wine Guide 2025

January 19, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3965 Views Sparkling wine

Normally things move slowly in the traditional world of wine. But around the fringes, things can move fast, and that’s

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Champagne Features France 

Most Memorable Champagnes of 2024

January 7, 2025September 28, 2025 Treve Ring 4386 Views Sparkling wine

Though Champagne sales have continued to slide worldwide, Goode and I have done our best to buoy the market this

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England Features TOP STORIES 

UK/English sparkling wine: a major study

December 20, 2024September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3910 Views Sparkling wine

UK sparkling wine (almost all of which is from England) is at a very interesting phase. There are now lots

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Features Latest Switzerland 

Cave Biber, making lovely wines from Switzerland’s Valais

January 11, 2026January 11, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.cave-biber.ch/en Cave Biber began life in 1971 when when René Mathier established his winery in the village of Salgesch

Mabillard-Fuchs: beautiful wines from the Valais, Switzerland
Features Latest Switzerland 

Mabillard-Fuchs: beautiful wines from the Valais, Switzerland

January 11, 2026January 11, 2026 jamiegoode
The big bottle party at the Cool Climate Wine Summit: a selection of interesting wines from Poland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria
Austria Denmark Features Germany Latest Poland Switzerland 

The big bottle party at the Cool Climate Wine Summit: a selection of interesting wines from Poland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026 jamiegoode
Some travel tips from someone who travels too much
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Some travel tips from someone who travels too much

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026 jamiegoode

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Wine anorak is one of the leading wine websites. This is the latest version of the site that began life in 1999, and was founded by Jamie Goode, who at the time was working as a science editor.

Since then it has grown, and Jamie is now a full-time wine writer, lecturer, wine judge and book author.

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